New games this week: Lost Odyssey edition

by Justin McElroy on Feb 11th 2008 8:45AM

We were fully prepared to make the absolutely delightful-looking Professor Layton and the Mysterious Village our featured game but we were afraid ... well, we were afraid that you'd make fun of us. There, we said it. So we went with the predictable choice: The sweeping, "no, we swear it's not Final Fantasy" epic RPG adventure of Lost Odyssey, which we know will send several of your hearts aflutter this week.

Also of note this week, we're looking forward to Wipeout Pulse and (in a sick sort of way) Jumper, which promises to be the best game based on a movie starring Hayden Christensen in which you do not actually play his character ever.

Xbox 360:

Lost Odyssey
Jumper
Conflict: Denied Ops
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic
Ninja Gaiden Black (Xbox Originals)
Black (Xbox Originals)
Sid Meier's Pirates! Live the Life (Xbox Originals)

PS3:

Conflict: Denied Ops

Nintendo Wii:

Balloon Pop
Go Diego Go: Safari Rescue
Jumper

Virtual Console:

Lords of Thunder
Harvest Moon

PS2:

Jumper
Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Mermaids
Go Diego Go: Safari Rescue
Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon Special Edition
Iridium Runners

PSP:

Wipeout Pulse
Chessmaster

Nintendo DS:

Dungeon Explorer: Warriors of Ancient Arts
Professor Layton & the Curious Village
New Zealand Story: Revolution

PC Games:

Pirateville
Conflict: Denied Ops
Forgotten Riddles: The Mayan Princess
Abra Academy
Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate
Powerboat GT

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Tags: DS, lost-odyssey, newgames, PC, professor-layton, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (54)

"Mod parent up". As I've said before, if the only way of integrating your storyline into a game you can come up with is to put a fucking text box with exposition on screen, you should be writing a novel - not designing a game.

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Hover over the metacritic score of Lost Odyssey for the next week or two as reviews come in, because you don't need to spend 60 dollars if it keeps the trend of mediocre to decent with a few good things going for it. If you have to have a good JRPG, look to the ps2 07 line up.